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Rykwert, Joseph
First Moderns: The Architects of the Eighteenth Century
Cambridge, MA MIT Press 1983 0262680394 / 9780262680394 Reprint, 1987 Soft Cover Good
viii, 585 pp., illus., biblio., index; 27 cm. Firm binding, creased spine. Clean inside copy. "The focus of this brilliant tour de force is the international intellectual discourse that began in the French academy between Blondel and Perrault and which Rykwert believes posed the first essential problems of modernism. His history covers the work and thought of Inigo Jones, Wren, Hawksmoor, Burlington, Kent, Hogarth, Piranesi, Lodoli, Winkelmann, and J. B. Fischer von Erlach." - Publisher.
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Rykwert, Joseph
The Seduction of Place: The History and Future of the City
New York Vintage Books 2002 0375700447 / 9780375700446 First paperback edition Trade Paperback Very Good
xii, 301 pp., illus., biblio., index; 21 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Light edgewear to wraps. "No other place on earth is as full both of promise and of dread as the city; it is at once alienating and exciting. These concentrations of people have not, however, come about as the result of vast immutable, impersonal forces, but because of human choices. The worsening or betterment of urban life will also be the result of choices. Our choices. That cities display and represent the personal desires of their inhabitants is central to Joseph Rykwert's argument in The Seduction of Place. Insisting that they are the physical constructs of communities, he travels through history to trace their roots in ancient times and outlines current attempts and future possibilities to improve the metropolis. Rykwert includes a broad range of urban landscapes: 18th-and 19th-century Paris and London, the current sprawl of Mexico City and Cairo, planned cities like Brasilia, and, finally, New York, the world capital. Always opinionated and often controversial, Rykwert assesses how and why urban projects from the past succeeded or failed and what lessons can be drawn from them for the future. Ultimately, The Seduction of Place is a deeply felt and powerfully reasoned call for a commitment by every citizen to the creation of a more humane place to live. / Joseph Rykwert, author of ten previous books, including The Idea of a Town, is Cret Professor of Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania." - Publisher.
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